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Ironically, they will probably succeed as this was a foul but yet another decision the ref got wrong. If only the ref had done this at the free kick from which Aberdeen scored their first goal. Have to agree with other posters that Aberdeen players were going down exceptionally easily and conned the referee although the referee should be able to deal with this better than he did on Saturday. The Aberdeen management team were also at the fourth official all game trying to pressurise him. No class at all from either the team or their management.

Some absolute telt today from Aberdeen to Inverness. A really comfortable Dons performance and an easy three points heading back along the A96. Decent start from Aberdeen but we took the lead against the run of play when Draper lifted a cute ball into the box and Doumbouya appeared in acres of space to steer a header past Lewis to put us one up. After that it was pretty much all Aberdeen with any chances for ICT at a premium. Hayes turned in an absolutely stunning performance and a lot of the Aberdeen attacks were coming down the ICT right with Hayes linking up well with Shinnie and also Maddison who was always on offer when Aberdeen drove through the middle. After a Maddison free kick was easily repelled by the Inverness wall MacLean had better luck when he curled the ball low round the right edge of the wall and inside the post. A really good free kick and it brought Aberdeen deservedly level. The award of the free kick looked pretty suspect. Maddison seemed to go down very easily, a recurring theme over the course of the game sadly, but disappointing that we didn't defend the resultant strike a bit better. Minutes later Aberdeen were ahead. Hayes scampered into the box and Warren struggled to stay with him and Hayes went down as he collided with Warren. There was certainly contact between the two as Hayes clearly tripped over Warrens outstretched leg but, and this is coming with massive ICT bias, I did wonder if perhaps Warren had just planted his leg slightly ahead of Hayes which the winger then went down over. Regardless, I can probably see why Clancy gave it and again it was poor defending in the first place to let hayes break into the box like that. Rooney had no issues finding the net with the penalty. Sadly, given how little we had threatened since our opening goal even at 2 - 1 down I couldn't see a way back into the game for us. However Tremarco saw an effort go wide and Maclean nearly bagged his second when a shot that looked like it was already going wide was turned around the post by Fon Williams. Into the second half and it was much the same with the Dons dominating proceedings and ICT resorting to lumping long balls in the vague direction of Doumboya. Aberdeen almost went 3 - 1 up when a fine cross from the right found Considine in the box and his downward header was met by Fon Williams who somehow managed to scramble it away. Aberdeen then saw a great chance for Shinnie go begging as he sped down the left and was picked out with a fine pass from Maddison however the former ICT man shot straight at Fon Williams. Maddison then paid the price for some of his earlier antics when he went down in the box under a challenge by Meekings and was booked. It was difficult to tell from the other end of the pitch if this was justified or not but given his previous histrionics and because I'm a seething, bitter mess right now I'm inclined to say yes. Shortly after Maddison nearly made headlines for better reasons as a fine free kick cracked off the base of the post with Fon Williams well beaten. ICT then lost MacKay to injury after a bad challenge from Shinnie which inexplicably went unpunished from Clancy. Aberdeen eventually got their deserved third goal when they seized on ICT losing possession after a corner and Hayes broke rapidly towards goal and he teed up MacLean who drilled the ball past Fon Williams to seal the points. A really good counter attacking goal which triggered a mass exodus from the home support. We seldom had a chance to speak of in the second half. A header from Doumbouya had Lewis scrambling to turn it over the bar, Draper wriggled into the box but his shot wasn't powerful enough to get past Lewis and Tremarco poked a late effort goalwards without really causing any difficulty. If we had got a goal back it would have made the game look a lot closer than it really was. overall there can't be any complaints about the result and having read the comments from Foran it's good to see he's not trying to dress it up as anything other than what it was - a sound beating by a much better team. Clancy was an absolute omnishambles today with some really questionable calls. His decision not to at least give Shinnie a yellow card for his challenge on Mackay was bizarre as was his incredible call to allow Maddison to go down claiming he was injured, wave play on but then halt play as we got to the edge of the Aberdeen penalty area and allow Maddison to get treatment. But he wasn't the reason for our downfall today. There were plenty of errors from ICT that we should look to address before the next run of crucial games coming up against the likes of Dundee, Hamilton and Killie. Granted we were missing important players in Tansey and Polworth but our sole tactic of leathering it towards Doumbouya was easily being snuffed out by Considine and O'Connor yet we still persisted with it. Joe Lewis is enormous yet we played high balls into the six yard box most of the time we got our crosses in. as for our free kicks....Jesus wept. We really lack a striker who can play off the last defender and a midfielder with a real eye for a pass to play that hypothetical striker in. As it stands we are quite direct and rigidly stick to that direct style come what may. It might work well against some teams but it definitely wasn't working today and we didn't really have a clue what to do about it. In summary....

I remember seeing this news clip and now he has done it! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38056907

Would be a good idea to put this one do bed and concentrate on the Dees.

Absolutely 100% agree Hayes, Maddison , Rooney take your pick they have it down to a fine art, more so than any other club I have seen at TCS. Leaves a bitter taste even now, two days later.

I see Mrs Clancy has voted.

Just about the most frustrating game I have been to in a long time! No not the ICT performance, over all it wasn't that bad .Yes it could have been much better. What frustrated me was the performance of the referee being 'conned' into giving fouls by the divers, giving unfair advantages to the cheats and giving us very little in return!! I have come to the conclusion that McInnes has his team out practicing diving for a large proportion of the training sessions, they are so good at it, it is unbelievable. Over the season it started with Rooney as the main offender, then Hayes took over the role now it is graduating throughout the whole team. To cap it all driving home I caught part of the summary on radio by the @@ Pundits @@ discussing the terrible tackles that ICT were putting in throughout the match. Enough said.

Fair assessment from Richie Foran thought we offered very litlte going forward, although have to disagree with his comments on Shinnie. The tackle on Mckay was nasty and over the top and could have been a lot, lot worse. To make matters worse when Mckay was flat out in obviously in distress Shinnie and co played on going forward encouraged by that absolute nark Mcinnes, An absolute disgrace by a club that has no class,

Sat 19 Nov 2016 Scot Premier A Rooney (ICT 1 - Aberdeen 3) EL 1 A MacDonald (Oxford U 4 - Coventry 1) EL2 T Aldred (Leyton O 1 - Blackpool 2) Ryman League R Eagle (Folestone 4 - AFC Sudbury 2) Highland League M Finnis (Clach 1 - Buckie 2) L MacKinnon (Clach 1 - Buckie 2) And in Hungary, Tarmo Kink scored for his club, Mezokovesd, in a 2-1 win.

So are ICT going to Dingwall or Invergordon primary schools old caley girl ?No the club should cement its hold in its home town surely ? get down from ur high horse woman

I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with you but I would be interested to learn the basis on which you come to that conclusion? I suppose what I'm asking you to do is to give a cause and effect indication of what the critical outcome at stake is, possibly by continuing that sentence with "because if not......."